No personal stories
"It's important to build trust with clients" instead of "I lost a $40k client because I didn't follow up."
Is this course slop?
Half the courses sold in 2026 are AI-generated common knowledge dressed up at premium prices. We call it slop. Paste any lesson content and find out instantly if you're about to drop $497 on real expertise, or on ChatGPT in a trench coat.
AI as a writing tool. Fine.
AI as the actual teacher. That's slop.
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Wait. What counts as slop?
A lot of people get this wrong
Slop isn't “the creator used AI.” A teacher with 10 years of experience using Claude to polish their explanations is great. That's just using a tool. Slop is something specific:
Real expertise + AI as a tool
= not slop
No real expertise + AI doing the teaching
= slop
Here's what slop actually looks like inside a course:
No original frameworks
Recycled common knowledge with no unique methodology. Stuff you'd find on the first page of Google.
Vague references
"Use a platform" instead of "use Notion." "Many companies" instead of "Stripe and Shopify."
Academic tone
"Furthermore," "moreover," "leverage," "utilize." Real teachers don't talk like a college essay.
Flat structure
Every module identical in shape. No callbacks to earlier lessons. No narrative arc. Just lists.
Zero failure stories
Everything works perfectly in the lessons. AI doesn't share scars. Real teachers do.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about the Slop Detector and how we tell the difference between real teachers and AI arbitrage.
